Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 1hElecting the child of a former leader is one of the top two most embarrassing things a democracy can do. 230
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Gift link: Remarkable insight into how separatist leaders are cut from the MAGA cloth: Factionalized, incompetent and opportunistic. Birds of a feather. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6bbe4c1...theglobeandmail.comThe elephant in the roomAlberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province 052
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Spent a couple of days reading a (good, I think?) lay primer of economics from the year 2024 and it’s crazy how, through no fault of its own, it feels so dated as to be from another world. 230
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaEmily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you 7142321025
Reposted by Rocky Alcoalizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 30/09/2026lmao this story is so fucking funny 641392
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275802505
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaThe Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On Friday night nearly 1000 people on bikes rode west to the site of Ford's first incoming bike lane removals, Bloor just east of Islington. Strength in numbers. #criticalmass 936190
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People who get thousands or multiple tens of likes don’t get to savor getting four artisanal likes individually wrapped with love each time, your loss chuds. 0101
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Absolutely baffling to me why any media outlet is keeping this up 110
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026(1/2) Air to Ground Message: C314 3HI. GOT A BIRD STRIKE INTO LEFT ENG. RIGHT AFTER TAKEOFF. GOT A BURNED CHICKEN SMELL RIGHT AFTER. TURNED L/H PACK OFF FOR 2 MIN. FOR THE SMELL. PACK IS BACK ON AND NO MORE SMELL. Area: Burlington, ON, Canada Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #a0200912df0 F: 1174
Reposted by Rocky Alcoayaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/09/2026victorian exploration missions be like hi yes hello i am admiral johnifer von planningfailure, meet my ships the HMS sinkable and the HMS hellfire, stocked to the brim with the best leaded goulash cans money can buy 1119236
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Does anyone still use three-ring binder paper anymore? 211
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaAbra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Star Trek fans: "We prefer Star Trek to Star Wars, because it's more intellectual and focuses on science and problem solving instead of action and space battles." The Defiant: "Pew pew pew?" Star Trek fans: "PEW PEW! PEW PEW PEW!!!" 4639
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What I appreciate here is that these pointers are practical. You read and think, “this exists in the real world.” Thinking about the time Hakeem Jeffries sent out a storm advisory note saying, and I quote, “If you live in a basement or ground-floor apartment, move to a higher floor.” 130
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396442565
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...mediamatters.orgTucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism. 30895286
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Remember when they said (lied) that USAID was corrupt? $400 million was handed out to 30 countries, with no real oversight and with workarounds to bypass human rights safeguards typically given to U.S. foreign assistance payments. Immigration is just a giant trough of corruption right now. 10611249
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Air to Ground Message: DISPGND CNTL SAYS A CONSTRUCTION CREW WITH AN AUGER ACCIDENTALLY CUT A BUNDLE OF ABOUT 400 ATC CABLES...OOPS. Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Airbus A321neo A: #a73d46088f6 F: #f65c3225273 1328585
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaThe Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Tick-borne diseases are spreading like crazy and a lot of them are fucking awful. DEET is your friend. Use it. 812033
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Actually visiting Truth Social always a real eye-opener. Glitchy, bare-bones, all the traffic on exactly one page, a bunch of Trump tweets glued together with ivermectin ads 210
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Approaching the tipping point where the discourse shifts from a rump minority of Never Trumpers to a rump minority of Forever Trumpers 000
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything else about antipodal dodgy dictator potash aside, this strategy of announcing undone deals is wearing about as well as all his other strategies. 020
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Spent an hour going in circles talking to 3 disagreeing AI models about how to clean an AC, eventually realized they were partially hallucinating and inept; just watched some guy on YouTube instead. Object lesson in having one’s time wasted by convenience. 0101
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole." 12457541515
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers. 15810303783
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297707666
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS. 566280938613
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaAdrian Harewood @caradrianh.bsky.social · 12/09/20261. In late Sept. 2002 just a year after the Al-Qaeda led Sept. 11th attacks on the US & in the midst of the so called War on Terror that followed #9/11, #MaherArar, a Syrian-born-McGill University-educated engineer, was on his way home to Canada following a family trip to Tunisia. 4239134
Reposted by Rocky Alcoaperpetual eternal @mj-slenderman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Incredible thread (with quite a kicker at the end) 0287
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026TH White on what to do when you're sad 923168
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaJamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026RIP Ontario Science Centre. This hurts a lot, yet sadly doesn't surprise me given how the person running my province is hellbent on destroying what was a wonderful institution that inspired so many people. 85829
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaNick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Some of you are too young to remember the end of Bush II. Strap in. 551399136
Reposted by Rocky Alcoadan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo 346476962
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaEmmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/09/2026I genuinely believe it is better if they never do. 59011
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Interesting to ask whether we would hate AI slop less if it simply sucked less. 100
Reposted by Rocky Alcoaghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims 14066891071
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaAnna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 06/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...nytimes.comHaitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and StrandedHundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go. 12612
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 05/09/2026Listening to a man at the farmers market explain he’s out of eggs as “the ladies aren’t producing due to heat stress”— and another poultry vendor says he’s out, as he can’t keep them in this heat. Climate change is all around. We just have to open our eyes to see how it’s affecting our daily lives.static.klipy.comSleepy Cartoon ChickenAlt: Sleepy Cartoon Chicken 19824259
Reposted by Rocky Alcoathe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026me: hey, aren't you jack reacher? reacher: poster. mid-tier, by the look of it. you were on twitter until it became x. now you're just on one of the knockoffs, most likely bluesky, because you don't have the self-confidence for instagram or tiktok. me: ok t— reacher: peaked in the buzzfeed era. 252617301
Reposted by Rocky AlcoaJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Most Americans didn't support Trump's tariffs on Canada. And more Americans approved of Mark Carney's retaliation than disapproved. Americans are siding with Canadians against their own government's trade policy. That tells you something about how badly this played. youtu.be/pO8b9CzyEdU 711185370
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It has so much going for it but at some point someone decided its unifying idea was going to be genre satire, and what a huge loss that was 220
